In November 2016, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) made history by becoming the first woman to serve as ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I became a senator in 1992—the Year of the Woman—and became the first woman to serve on the Judiciary Committee in the wake of the Anita Hill hearings. The men on the Senate Judiciary Committee either couldn’t understand or simply didn’t care about what Hill was talking about. But in many other ways, very little has changed ― even with a woman heading the Judiciary Committee. In a statement on Friday, Hill called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to put in place a fair and neutral process to deal with these types of complaints.

Source: Huffington Post September 14, 2018 21:00 UTC